Hate speech and crime against LGBTI people is a plague which is spread across the continent and needs to be taken seriously by the EU institutions and EU Member States. LGBTI people and their supporters are regularly and systematically subjected to appallingly degrading, humiliating speech inciting to hatred and violence as well are subjects to physical attacks and even murders.

“This is an urgently needed piece of EU legislation which we have been asking for years. The EU Commission needs to move from promising statements to concrete action and propose the changes and ban hate crime and speech against LGBTI people. We are truly grateful to the European Parliament to maintaining the pressure on other EU institutions to act.”

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